Postcards Swap

Zoe over on the Lotstodo forum is hosting a postcard swap. On the front you had to use an art inspiring quote and then decorate the front to match the quote. I'm not entirely sure that I've managed that, but anyway, I've tried!!!

And the reverse you had to split into 2 sections, postcard style, and put your details on one half leaving the other blank. Can only show you these 2 as the front of the other is drying. The top one got a bit messy, but then that's me all over!!!!

Tag Swap - Stamping

Hilda is hosting a tag swap over on Lotstodo and I asked to be a 'maybe' due to time and she replied, yes but I know you'll have them done by tomorrow, so that was a challenge if ever I've heard one. So here they are, all 5 tags with a stamping theme. The green one (left) has diamond glaze over the butterflies and a few of the bold words. The next is a collage of images using different tones of purples, the middle one a stamp with the middle stamped again, left white and raised with foam pads and placed on top of the original. The next is a mixture of a few warming colours, yellow, orange, brown inked together on the stamp and german scrap added at the top and the one on the right is a distressed ink background (blue!!) with water thrown over and dried with a heat gun to give a watermark effect, then stamped over the top with the PBS image. Ribbon and fibres added to finish.

More Snow

This is what we woke up to this morning - a blanket of white!!!!

Tags of different shapes

This weeks Lotstodo Challenge is to make a tag using a different shape to 'the norm', so I've used a nesties shape and embossed it with the circles impressabilities plate. I chalked over it all and swiped the raised parts with faded jeans distress ink. Stamped the image onto a piece of light blue card, rounded the corners and added the words faded dreams using the Dymo labeller, punched a hole and added a piece of ribbon

This is a piece of white clay which I stamped into and baked in the melt pot. I then painted it, used my crop-o-dile to put a hole in it and added ribbon

White All Over

Over on Lotstodo this week the challenge is to make something where 'white is the main colour' - so here is mine

The base is corrugated cardboard, covered in a couple of dictionary pages and white washed with snowcap acrylic dabber and then some white tissue paper dotted about over the top to give some texture. White lace down each side, buttons on the right, flowers on the left, including a dictionary paper rose (have to say, it's much easier to do with grungepaper!!!). A nesties frame housing a printed image and white liquid pearls to decorate. Printed words 'free my spirt' and a white bow to finish

OMG - WOW....Look what I got!!!!

Isn't this just fantastic. It's a handmade scaft from my friend Kath (aka LazyKay). It's beautiful, it's just so soft and the knit is so loose and oh my what gorgeous colours, there's 4 different shades of green in there - it's just fabulous. Obviously the photo doesn't do it any justice whatsoever, but I just had to share it with you all.


Thank you Kath for my lovely gift. When I suggested it, I was only joking or meaning for yourself, you are so kind and so so clever, thank you xxxxxx

Distressed Board Book

Hilda is hosting a board book swap over on Lotstodo with a distressed theme. This is the front of mine

And one of the inside pages

And another

And another. The idea for the hat was inspired by Burn, well her grand-daughter Milla, actually

And the back

Obviously there are more pages but I don't want to spoil it too much for the person who gets it

Little Frame Boxes - Lotstodo Challenge

Ages ago I got 2 of the little frame boxes from Crafty Individuals, well I've finally decided to do something with them


This is the front


This is the back


And this is the inside - xxx

Also it fits in perfectly with this weeks Lotstodo challenge!!!

Green Moos!!

Andrea is hosting a Moo swap on Lotstodo forum. The theme is 'the colour green' so how could I turn this one down!!!

Black & White Atc's

Black & White is this months UKStampers Atc theme. I've gone to town with the black and white embossing powders - had fun though!!!!

Winter Wonderland

The first challenge of the new year over on Lotstodo is 'Winter Wonderland', so here is a photo of me skiing in my winter wonderland. The background is weathered wood and broken china distress inks with snowflakes stamped in metalic acrylic pearl dabber. The edges of the tag have been distressed with the paper distresser and inked with walnut stain. The black frame was embossed with diamonds through the BigShot and cloudy blue acrylic paint was applied.

Wax & Walnut Crystals

I've been playing with corrugated cardboard, walnut crystals, bees wax, buttons and bling

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy New Year to each and every one of you

Hope 2010 brings you health, happiness and craftiness

Thanks for your support this year and for visiting, bloggin' and leaving the odd comment or two. Please feel free to continue in 2010

Take care everyone, all the very best

Sam, Martin & Fraser

12 Tags Candy Giveaway & Another Giveaway

Jennie is giving yet more blog candy away. Check out this link to see what you have to do in order to be inwith a chance of winning a different set of christmas mini stamps and an angel!!!!

This give away finishes on 28th December, so still plenty of time to enter



Jennie over at The Artistic Stamper, is giving away 12 fantastic prizes of candy in exchange for seeing your 12 days of T!M's tags creations. You can have made all 12 tags or just plumped for the 1, she's not bothered as long as you've attempted something. All you need to do to be in for a chance to win is post a link back to her blog so she can see your tag(s) and if you want a 2nd chance to win, post a thread on your own blog telling others (just like I'm doing now!!!). The draw is open until 30 December, so if you haven't made any yet, get creating!!! If you don't have a blog email your pictures to Jennie, addy on her blog

Really excited about this giveaway, not that I have ever won any blog candy like, and I didn't win anything on T!m's blog either!!!!

I was lucky enough to find the time for all 12 tags, so to save you hunting for them all individually, I've posted them all together below


Day's 1 - 6

Day's 7 - 12

Good luck everyone!!!!!

Jennie is being so generous, she is giving more stuff away, all you have to do is leave a comment on her blog on this post

Again, good luck xxxx

Getting a Head Start

Some 2010 Christmas Cards





Figured if I showed them now, you'll have forgotten about them by the time you receive one!!!!



Just dead simple but used T!m's tag 7 technique for the topper



They are all along the same lines but each one is slightly different!!!!